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 74. * Threnetes cervinicauda Gould. 



Threneles cervhiicauila Gould, P. Z. S. 1854. p. llJ9 (• Quijos, in Ecuador "). 



1 ? fere ad. 30. x. 05. No. 42. " Iris black."— Wiug 57 ; tail 31 ; bill 30 mm. 



This is a highly interesting addition to the fauna of Panl, being not only the 

 first record of the species for Brazil, but e.xteuding its range from Eastern Peru and 

 Ecuador to the Lower Amazons. 



In the Paris Museum there is a sjiccimen, collected near Para by M. P>araci|uin 

 in 1859, which I found to differ slightly from typical T. cervinicauda ; but the 

 female now sent by M. Hoffmanns does not exhibit these differences, being in every 

 detail exactly similar to a good series from Eastern Ecuador and Bogota collections. 

 It is strange to find T. cervinicauda at Para, where I should rather have exjjected 

 T. leucurus of Cayenne and Surinam. 



75. Glaucis hirsuta (Gm.) 



Trochilus hirsutiis Gmelin, Si/st N<il. 1. i. p. 490 (1788.— ex Brisson : ex Marcgrave.— " Brasilia."— 



We accept Bahiu as typical locality). 

 Glaucis lanceolala Gould. Momiqr. Trorhil. i. (1861) pi. 8 (Par.i) descr. orig. 

 Glaucis hirsuta Layard, Ibis 1873. p. 388 (Pani). 



1 adult, not sexed ; 1 S juv. : 14. xii. 05. Nos. 335, 340. " Iris black."— 

 Wing 62, 63 ; tail 38, 42 ; bill 30, 31 mm. 



Not different from a series of Bahia skins. The characters upon which 

 Gould founded his G. lanceolata, viz. the pointed tail-feathers and the bufify 

 edges to the quills and upper wing-coverts, are those of the young birds. One 

 of Mr. Hoffmanns' specimens (No. 335) agrees with Gould's plate and description, 

 while the other one is exactly similar to adults from various localities. 



76. * Phoethornis affinist moorei Lawr. 



[Phaefm-tiis affiiiis Pelzeln, Silziuiysler. Ahul. V.'iui xx. (1800) p. 157 (Marabitanas, Barra do Rio 



Negro).] 

 Phaethoniis mnorei Lawrence, Ami. New York Lye. vi. (1858) p. 'JuS ("Ecuador"). 



1 (J jr. and 1 ? ad., 28. xii., 23. x. 05. Nos. 371, 4. " Iris black, feet grey, 

 bill black, lower mandible red." Wing 60, 58 ; tail 68, 64; bill 38, 37 mm. 



These specimens nearly agree with a series of Bogottl skins and others from 

 the Peruvian Amazons. The underparts are dirty greyish, only the middle of 

 the lower belly being faintly tinged with buffy. 



In true P. a. a(finis the whole lower surface is bright butf, slightly underlaid 

 with greyish on the sides of the throat. Pelzelu's types from Marabitanas and 

 Barra do Rio Negro which lie before me are practically identical with a very large 

 series (some thirty specimens) from Cayenne, British Guiana and the Orinoco 

 River. P. guianensis Bouc. is, therefore, a pure synonym of P. q//inis. 



In the Gould collection, British Museum, there are several examples of P. a. 

 affinis said to be from Para, but these are skins of the unmistakable Cayenne make, 

 and certainly never came from Pani I 



It is interesting that tlie Upjier Amazonian form occurs near Pani. We should 

 rather have expected to meet with ]'. a. a//inis of Cayenne here. 



t This is the proper specific name, I believe, for the small species witb white under tail-coverts, 

 called 1'. mpereiVosua by Berlepscb & Hartert. Trochilug sujicrritiosus Linnaeus appears to be referable 

 to P. malari.i N'ordm., since Brisson, upon whose description Linn6"s account is exclusively based, states 

 that the under tail-coverts like tlic rest of tlie lower parts arc " d'un hlanc roussatre." The description of 

 the four lateral tail-feathers also applies much better to P. vmlaris. 



